Big nate author biography worksheet

Nate Wright is a wisecracking eleven-year-old who knows he's destined for greatness—he's a sixth- grade chess prodigy, a self-described genius.

This is the REVISED literature unit for the first book in the Big Nate series, which has great similarity to the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series.

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• Beforehand reading Submerge the Waiting in the wings Goes Coordinate in picture Dumps worksheet

• Author delving worksheet

• Stamp chart

• 1 Look-up sheet

• Vocabulary Read sheet

• Absolution the Story comprehension worksheet

• Chapter Summarization worksheet

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Big Nate - The Crowd Goes Wild! (PDFDrive)

Curriculum Connections and Activity/Discussion Guide

The activities in this guide align with the English Language Arts Common Core State Standards for grades 3–5.

By Tracy Edmunds, M.A. Ed.

Reading With Pictures
Big Nate: The Crowd Goes Wild!
Lincoln Peirce
AMP! Comics for Kids
Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN: 9781449436346
G R A D E L E V E L : 3–5
Curriculum Connections:
Language Arts—Idioms

Content Standards:
Language Arts
Common Core State Standards: www.corestandards.org

Overview:
Students identify and discuss idioms used in Big Nate: The Crowd Goes Wild!
Then they learn about the use of text in comics and create their own four-
panel comics featuring idioms.

Grade 3
Reading
* Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the
text as the basis for the answers. [CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.1]
* Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, distinguishing literal
from nonliteral language. [CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.4]
* Explain how specific aspects of a text’s illustrations contribute to what is conveyed by the
words in a story (e.g., create mood, emphasize aspects of a character or setting)
[CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.7]
Writing
* With guidance and support

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Big Nate: In a Class by Himself

49 pages • 1 hour read

Lincoln Peirce

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2010

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Background

Literary Context: The Lincoln Peirce/Jeff Kinney Connection

The most common criticism of Lincoln Peirce’s Big Nate: In a Class by Himself is that the book copied and took advantage of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series by Jeff Kinney. There are some notable similarities. Both books focus on domestic, everyday matters. Both are written in first person with direct addresses to the audience, though Diary of a Wimpy Kid states explicitly that it is a journal, while Nate’s reason for writing is more uncertain. Most strikingly, both books use a combination of prose and comic strips to tell the story. However, Diary of a WimpyKid came out in 2007, whereas the “Big Nate” comic, on which the book is based, was first published in 1991. How could Peirce be copying when his work came out first?

There are several reasons for the similarities in style between Peirce and Kinney. The most glaring one is that Pe